The weekly average of the 10th Cruiser Squadron showed:
No. of vessels intercepted, 62 and 34 trawlers; No. sent in, 23; No. on patrol, 13; No. absent at ports or en route to or from patrol, 10; No. on special service, 0.
The armed merchant-steamer Arlanza, after temporary repairs at Alexandrovsk, arrived at Belfast in July for refit.
The weather during July was very foggy, fog or mist being experienced at Scapa or in the neighbourhood on the 2nd, 3rd, 15th, 18th, 23rd, 24th and 25th.
During the month of August the principal cruiser movements, apart from those in connection with the Battle Fleet, were as follows:
(a) The patrol of two cruisers and two destroyers in an area well to the northward of the Shetlands was continued.
(b) The “dark night” light cruiser extended-patrol seaward of the Fleet bases was maintained.
(c) The patrol of a cruiser on the Archangel route was continued.
(d) Light cruiser sweeps were carried out as follows:
On the 1st, two light cruisers and four destroyers left Rosyth for a sweep down the Norwegian coast, returning on the 3rd, having sighted nothing of interest; on the 8th, two light cruisers and four destroyers from Rosyth swept from Lat. 60 N., Long. 2 E., to Lat. 57.30 N., Long. 5.0 E., and returned to their base on the 10th, without result. On the 12th the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron, with four destroyers, left Scapa and proceeded towards Udsire Lighthouse, where they met a convoy of 10 British merchant-ships which had been brought out of the Baltic. These vessels were escorted across the North Sea to Rattray Head. The convoy arrived safely on the 14th.